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Advertising Untes.
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consideration of advertiser who.. Iiron will b
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VOLUME XXIX.
EBENS15URG, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1S95.
NUMBER 21
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Saul. Max
Sinter. .1. M
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Williams. Herman K ..
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fourth H'arrf.
Campbell. C l 14 7 25
Cohen, A. & Bro 11 15 aft
lliberl Scott 11 15 25
liit.ert. W. B 13 12 75
Devlin. F. .1 12 12 75
Imvls. harles 14 72.'.
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H:.y F. W X -ion 13 In 25
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Heftly. H. B 14 7 25
Hoiiinan. (loillel. 14 7 25
llohiiiatin Bros 14 7 25
Jordan Ac Hinchman 1 31125
Joy F. A X Son 14 7 25
I mowltz II 14 7 'J5
Kriimer Broa l:t loaf.
l.arUio Sl Piper 14 7 25
M.-Crory. J II II 15 26
Moras, t! 1. 14 7 25
Marx. 1 12 12 75
Moses.: W 12 12 75
Monroe, W A 14 7 25
Kou.lal.un. K 13 lo V5
Kimti Ji Kppley 14 7 25
Swank. N. B II 1525
Swank HardwareCoinpanv 7 40 25
Sproul. J, K 14 725
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Thomas. John at Sons .... 4 so 25
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Wateia. John H fc Hro 11 1525
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fijth Ward.
Adam. W A
Hrehm. Frederick
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Fockier. ileorire
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Lawrence. P M
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SIrao.ss. William.
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Smilh, iieorite W
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Will x Kankin
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Sixth Ward.
Krinker, T H
Kralton. 1 W
Iiecker. J.'hn H
Kur.i. W J
Mrilarry. ierKe
Kulliuan, Ijnui -
Stremmell. William
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Wilson, tlon. W
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Harrlck. W K
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Widuian. John
JOHMSTOWW.
I'rnth Ward.
Uuinn, M. 1)
.IOH 1IKT..W .
Ktevrnth HarilZ
Pattch J. Blttman
Kowlau.l. Jefferson
.loHNSTOWS.
Tvrljth Hard. .
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ytjtrrnth Ward.
Abraham. Anthony
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Knrie. PM'.rlck. -. --
tMark. P F
Fisch. Martin
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Hesler, Theolore 4i l'o..-...'.
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Kram. A I. r a hum fc t'o
Salem. Abraham "
Sl'.el. L. A
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Sutrinth Ward.
Howllnv. John
Fehe. William ,
tlallnev. .lame-
(leltun.l. lavid -
larnall. J A... "
Letlkawitl. Morrl
McAlear. llwen
ix-hitlaur. John
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Toner. Peter
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Dunham . Samuel
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Ham p. John - -.
McAllister. Alonxo -
Pruih.W A
Shields. James -
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laithey.Mrs Mary B
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Lilly supply Company ...
leahy Ai t-o
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Mullen. J B
Kainey . Joepn
Loxcrro uoiuit'OM
Lltzlniier. B W -
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tlrH.ty. Maiirioe 14 ;2
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Iiiichry ilalbraity 1:1 in 'i5
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. 40 75 Newman. F F. 14 7
li 12 75 Kohertson. W 1 1 S . 14 7 'i
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la Hi iS Saly. Peter 14 7 ?i
l:t ini'5 Stiinetelt .V Nlpp It 7 -J
14 7 75 Von Alt. JH 14 75
'4 " - W'lllett. William 14 7 e.i
13 10 as Younir. 1 W . 14 75
10 ill a5 MI NSIKII TOW.NMHIP.
K 7a5 Eberly. Henry 14 7 7S
4 7 a5 1ATT4N ROKoruH .
14 7 '.'5 Kell. L. S 14 7 b
14 7 a5 j Ki.yce. Samuel 14 7 a
14 7 a-' 1 Buck. H S 14 7 a
' 7 a5 I tiambria Hardware tlompany 14 7 'J5
':' l75 '..melius. . I. K 14 7 aft
I 15 a5 Feder. .I..eph 14 7 3
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14 7 2i llauliardi. John ..." ". 14 7 25
'3 lo 25 Hoditkln. W 14 7 25
14 7 25 Llncnln a. McKeal 14 7 25
14 7 25 Murkin Ai Kusner 14 7 21
-I 1(125 Patton Su..ly 4:iiianv 1:1 In 25
25 25 Severn, K. J '. 14 7 25
5 H0 2.5 Thomas. A. M 14 7 2r
13 11125 W cakland. Walter..... 14 7 25
14 7 25 Wuir a Thompson 14 7 25
14 7 25 W holerl.iire. Mm. Lvat: 14 7 as
11 15 25 Yahner. John 14 7 25
13 11125 I'OKT UK Itoaol l.M.
14 7 25 (loldstlne, A. B. II. S 13 1(1 25
13 11125 Haupt. L A X.: 13 In 25
14 725 M(iL.ilv. William li It 7 25
14 7 25 Piintcle. M. A 14 7 25
14 7 25 Wilson. .1. K. Sl 'o 13 1H25
12 12 75 Koiinir. F. 11 .V Co 14 7 25
11 15 V5 POKTA.1K TOWNHHI F.
14 725 t'onler. W S 14 7 25
14 7 25 Piper M K..V4'n 13 n 25
8 3U2". States. He.. me W 13 10 25
13 102;. Wilkinson. Thomas.. 14 7 25
13 10 25 KtlKKTOH'SSHir.
13 l. 25 Bowers K. K 14 7 25
1 7 25 B land. Fred 14 7 25
11 1.5 25 Lldorado t'oal Coiupany 14 7 25
14 7 25 Fri.-k.Max 13 In 25
14 7 25 Fries &. Schtuithe I t 10 25
14 7 25 (llasunw.J. II 14 7 25
12 12 75 lll.PKow. 4. I. 14 7 25
14 7 25 KevHione Merchandise Company. v 2 25
14 7 25 Rutin. F. 14 7 25
13 in 75 Kuhn . H. 14 7 25
14 7 25 Troxell.C F. 14 7 25
13 Kii5 I'nlon Supply Company U 7 2.5
14 7 25 Wlllhide. A. K 14 7 25
13 11125 ROSKHALK HC'ltOl iH.
J4 7 25 F.ppley L. Si A . W . 14 7 25
14 7 25 KK'HI.aM. TOWNSHIP.
Haiiichton, James 14 7 25
POXBI KY HOHO tOll
Hilleuas, S. .1
14
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7 25
7 25
lo 25
7 25
10 25
7 25
7 25
in 25
25
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7 25
7 25
12 75
lo 25
7 25
7 25
7 25
sr.lMVl'KKKK TOWNSHIP.
Excelsior Store 14
HOI'TH KOKK R(lH..l'OH
Buck, A. C At Co
(lol.lstine. 1
leorae. N.S k Son
t ruml.hni: . K. S
lales. I leorise F.
Kautfinan. J ....
Luken. Haupt t t:o
Murphy. Noah
Mandelsline. L
Prlnule. A. A ..
stromr. A. D
stlneman Bro
South Fork Supply Company
Treece. S W ..
W icks. John S
Wllt.T. .1
SfAMil-KK HIIKOl'dll.
Anderson. H M.XA
Binder. K. M
14
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14
14
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Cushion. A. B. .
jeer. Henry
Oirarrl. C
Li. 1.1 le. W. 11
MM low n, H.J
VcNeclis, James
Mcarve K. H
McClain fc Co
Moicolts. J . At Co
Si.ac.cter Hardware coin, .any..
Wayne, M "...
7 2ft
7 aa
7 tS
7 25
7 i
10 25
7 as
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Hl'M M KRH1LL BOHOI OH.
Dlmond. M C :4
MoCall. Patrick .. 11
Plurainer. Wallace.... 14
Werner, Anthony 14
W AftKI KflTIlN TOWNSIIir.
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7 a s.
Benvreek Supply Company
14
leap, martin
WIIMOP.K BOBOt'UH.
Brown. P. M
Klrby, P. .:
Bnl.erlson. W. li. At Son
Sherblne, Wallace..
Wentroth, Oeorue
14
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7 2ft
7 25
7 2."
7 25
voi.ee towmhbip (lowbk).
Habbich ALHudach 14
kt.'s'ake, M- 14
. YODRB TOWKHHIP (I'PPKB).
McKee.O. W 14
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i 25
BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES.
No. ol
Tables. License,
KBKNHBt HU BOH. t IH.
Brown, H. F
lietiny, J. B
OALLITZ1I" IIOKOI .IH.
Campbell, John
HASTIMOH HOkOt'.IH.
1 SO 25
3 .50 25
1 : .0 25
2 4025
J 60 2ft ,
7 M0 25
4 60 25
0 M 25
1 4.1 26
1 30 75
1 :m25
3 50 25
3 Ml 75
2 411 25
1 30 75
1 :to 75
1 :i 76
1 30 25
1 30 25
2 40 75
Foust. tl.
Kline, F.
B. M - .
J...
.IOHNHTOWH.
Third Ward.
Hamm, C. B.
i.iHNHTowa.
fourth Ward.
Mors i-.. L.
Wier. F.P
JOHNSTOWN.
Srvnitemth Ward.
Burudorf, Frederick
LILLY KOKOL'UH.
Haley. John
Short, V Incent
MOHKKXLVILLK B-Blll UH
Youdk. Albert -
P ATToN BOKtH OH.
Ilreen. (leorve
Strati ff.W. W
PvOt TII PORK BOKOI OH.
Dimnn.l. William
Huizel. 7harles....
Hamilton. John....
Murphy, Noah
RPAKHLKK KOKOl'OH.
Merthers. Jame .... -
Kodkey.I. N
BROKERS.
.IOH NATO N.
Fir Hard.
Class. License
Brown Ai Otto..,
13
14
IO26
7 25
lark, F. W
JOBSSTOWK.
TftirJ Hard.
Blanch. 11. D.
1025
EATING HOUSES.
Class.
L.lcene
5 26
6 22
K AST CON KM it UH BOROt'OH.
Wrikht, William D
8
8
H ASTIHW BOKOI Oil.
Foust, I. B. M
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American Gunboats That Went
Down Forever.
Brief Review of Naval 1-o.aea During Cen
tury Famous Men -of -War That
Hate Myaterlf.ualy liisappeareol
from View.
Since the last great storm swept
acriM the Atlantic it has liecome rea
sonably certain that more than one ves
sel has lceii swallowed up in the waves.
In some instances the fate of the lost
vessels hus. been learned from the
wreckage seen by pussinp; ships; but it
lias hapH'iied. many times since men
first lK'ran to tfo down into the deep in
ships, that an apparently stout stanch
vessel has set sjiil payly from jxirt tmlv
to vanish as completely as if her voyaee
had been outside of the solar system.
Even the American navy has .suffered
such losses, that are to-day and perhaps
always will be an unsolved mystery.
The first imjiortaiit loss if this kind,
savs the llostoii Advertiser, was the
eio-hteen-puii man-of-war Saratupa, one
of the few ships that composed the
American navy 1 H years apo. The loss
of the Saratopa was in itself a story
that niipht well attract the notice
of a writer of fiction, as it occurred at
the close of w hat promised to be a sip
nally successful cruUe. The Saratopa
sailed from 1'hiladelphia early in the
aiitunia of 17M). and in OctolH-r captured
three vessels bound from Jamaica to
New York. Ueturninp toward Phila
delphia with her prizes the Saratopa
siphted the P.ritish man-of-war Intrepid,
and beinp clearly out-matched escaped
by puttinp olT to the east. Her prizes
were recaptured by the Hritish. and she
herself disapiearcd utterly from human
ken.
Just alHiut twenty years later the
I'nited States fripate lnsurpeiit. carry
inp thirty-six puns, sailed from the
Chesapeake t'ap;s tinder orders to
rui.se between loiipitudes sixty-six de
prees and sixty-eipht ileprees west and
to po 110 farther south than thirty de
crees north. It is probably within that
very tract of the ocean that the Saratopa
was lost, and it was reparded as sipnili
cant by some of the old salts of tlie
American navy at the itepiiininp of the
present century that the lnsurpeiit,
too. sailed olT into the list of shi)s
whose faith 110 man knows. For all one
can say to the contrary the lnsurpeiit
and the Saratopa lie side by side otf the
l'hesaicake Capes.
In the same year, the only year in
which two of the American men-of.war
mysteriously disapieared, the fourteen
pun brip I'ickerinp was ordered to
I i uadeloupe to cruise alonp the coast
there. In September, 100, a heayy
pale swept the ocean, and it was pem-r-ally
Wlicved al the time that the ln
surpeiit and the I'ickerinp went down
at alKiut the same time and in practic
ally the same storm. The I'ickerinp
was not a very sea worthy vessel when
equipped with puns, and there is little
question that she foundered durinp a
pale, althouph there is of course 110 cer
tainty as to her fate.
When in lstl.5 the I'nited States de
cided to send ten punloats to help in
the war apainat Trili one of these
vessels, know n as "I oinlHiat No. 7."
met with a mishap after leavinp jM.rt
and was forced to put back apain. Per
haps if Lieut. James Lawrence, who
commanded '(oinlH.at Xo. (." .had
been assipned to the unlucky "Xo. 7."
which Lieut. Opelvie commanded.
American naval history mipht have
been different. As it was "Xo. 0" ar
rived safely, and Lawrence lived to de
feat the Peacock and to tiplit the Shan
non; but Lit'tit. 1 pelvie"s punboat went
forth atrain after repairs and sailed
into the mysterious waters of the un
known, and another "missinp" ship
was entered oil the navy's rolls.
The most famous of all the missinp
ships of the American navy was the
Wasp. In its brief history it bad a
brilliant record, havinp within a e
riod of five months taken fifteen ves
sels, valued at more than two hundred
thousand dollars. Its prowess as a
terror of the seas was so remarkable
that its name had prown to be a menace
to Pritish merchantmen. Late in the
year 114. less than six months after
she had left the Portsmouth navy yard
for her career of victory, the Wasp dis
apjM'ared completely. Perhaps some
damape received in an encounter w ith
the enemy had weakened the sloop's
timlK-rs so that she fell an easy prey to
wind and water; but, whatever hap-jK-iied.
she left 110 trace.
The last American man-of-war to
vanish was the brip Epervier, which
sailed from Decatur's licet to the
I'nited States to bear the treaty made
w ith the I ley of Alpiers. July VI. IMS,
th Epervier was last seen near the
strait of I Gibraltar. Since that time she,
too. has joined the licet of the missinp.
Where the vessels of that licet lie and
what became of the crews are matters
that may never be known until the
juilpment day; but crhaps chance
may yet throw- some lipht on the ques
tion. In the meantime the theme is one
that may well invite the attention of
the imapinative novelist.
THE POWDEK
PLAY.
A I'lctureaque
a me of the
IlorHeiuen of
Morocco.
A dozen or so horses are drawn up in
to line at one end of the plain, the rid
ers, by means of bit and stirrup, work-
in"" their animals into a fer
ment of excitement. Then, at a given
aipnal, the long-barreled guns are
waved in the air, and the triop sets
forward at little more than a walk.
which increases as they proceed, war-ir.-r
t heir jjuns and saluting the while,
until it becomes a furious gallop.
Suddenly, says i:lackwod's Mapa
riiic. the weapons are brought to the
shoulder, held with both hands, the el-
1k. ws raised to the level of their
shoulders, and the next moment tlu
little troop of horsemen is lost to sight,
enveloped in the clouds of white smoke
which the Hint-lock guns and inferior
native lmwder produce, only to issue
apain in their showy trappings, reining
in their horses with all the strength of
u. ..
their iron wrists, until the poor Ix-asts.
often w ith bleeding mouths, are brought
to a standstill.
The lalr-el-barond. as the natives call
it. admits of but little variation w hen
performed in iiumlH-rs; but this is not
I! always the ease, and at times one man
3 alor.e will po through the maneuver.
F iitlroducinp some new system of his
own lying back in the saddle and tiring
behind him, for instance, or under his
horse's belly. .
H.
HYPNOTISM IN COURT.
They
I'ae It In Their IntrlRuea Learned.
Men Pronounce Oplnl.m.-
An interesting ease was recently
hroupht before the criminal court of
Munich. A PolLsh adventurer named
EuWrz-Czyuski had appeared in Dres
den as a professional hypuotizer. Dres
den has many rich people who have
nothinp special to keep them employed,
and the man with the unpronounceable
name found plenty of faithful follow
ers. Amonp these was a lady of (food
family, beautiful and rich. The "pro
fessor" declared his love to her. she
accepted him. and there under ordinary
circumstances would have been an end
to the matter. I'nfortunately, how
ever, Czyuski had already a wife, and
he tried to pet out of the diliiculty by
a sham marriape, askiup his new
souse to keep their union secret. Hut
the hiph-lorn lady's relatives pot wind
of the affair and had the adventurer
arrested, aceusinp him of havinp hyp
notized his victim. Half a dozen
learned men, says the Echo, lterlin,
were summoned from as many uni
versities to decide whether it was
possible to influence a jersou to such
an extent that all resistance is impos
sible. The jury failed to be convinced
that such is the case. The eharpe
apainst Czyuski. of havinp made the
lady subservient to him without her
consent, was dismissed, but he was
convicted of disorderly conduct and of
criminal acts apainst the public moral
ity and sentenced to three years' im
prisonment, with five years' loss of
civic honors. The Xation. Perliu, says:
"I do not lelieve that hypnotic influ
ence is irresistible. When we see the
exhibitions of professional hypuotizers
we are led to think that they command
oliedience. If a hypnotized person is
told: 'You are a dop.' he will lepiii to
bark and crawl on all fours. Hut I be
lieve that all such people are only
somewhat stupid individuals who fol
low no other influence than the wish
to appear interestinp or to please for
some reason or other the hypnotizer. 1
have often discovered proofs of this.
ne man. for instance, was told that in
a certain place there was a wall t
hiph for him to jump over. He went tc
this place and lepan to jump, but he
always jumiied backward! Xone of the
pr-at scientists who interest thenisclve?
in hypnotism have ever declared that
they themselves could be influenced.
It is imossible with a person feeliup
his resixmsibility. aud neither judpe
nor jury could be influenced."
THE HABIT OF NAIL-BITING.
it
la a Mark of llecrneratlou of the Nerv-
011 Syateui.
There has just leen issued from the
Paris pressa brochu re which is creating
: large amount of interest in French
medical circles, both on account of its
originality anil the experimental re
sults which it emlKHlies It is from the
jm'ii of Dr. Edgar Herillon, so well
known in the surpical world by reason
of his prominent connection with the
dead Charcot in the latter's hypnotic
exjieriiiicnts. and at present Secretarie
tleneral tie la Socicte d'Hypnolopie et
de Psycholopie of -Paris and medical in-sH-ctor
of the state lunatic asylums.
The work is a scientific treatise on ony
eophapie, or fingernail biting, aud con
tains the results of a series of observa
tions in the public aud private schools
tif France, and extending through a
jH-riod of more than seven years. At
the congress of the French Association
for the Vdvanceinelit of Sciences, held
at Xancy in lssi".. Peril Ion first an
nounced his observations on the habit
of nail-biting, and since that time has
been in almost continuous experiment.
In his thoroughly scientific treatment
of what the world has never liefore con
sidered worthy of prolonged or siccial
study lSerillon has arrived at results
really remarkable. His experiments
lead him to pronounce the habit far
more widespread and iernicious than
others promptly treated, and force him
to conclude that, if not a disease itself.
it is an unfailing mark of incipient de
generation tif the nervous system,
which, unreeopnized. maybe productive
of the most evil results.
HOW HE WAS ACCEPTED.
Here Iudaed la a New 4 ay to win a.
Woman.
The New Orleans Picayune has this
interesting story of two literary celeb
rities in a recent issue: 1 he late I rot.
Aytoun was uncommonly ditlident
when making proposals of marriage to
Miss Jane Emily W ilson, who after
ward In-came his wife. 1 he lady re
minded him that before she should givo
her absolute consent it would le neces
sary to obtain her father's approval.
"You must speak lor me, saui me
suitor, "for 1 could not summon cour
age to speak to the professor on the
subject."
"Papa U in the library aaid the
lady.
"Then you had lietter go to him,"
said the suitor, "and 1 will wait your
return."
The lady proceeded to the library, and
Lukinp her father affectionately by the
ha.n.1 mentioned that the professor had
asked her hand in marriage. She add
ed: "Shall I accept his offer, papa?
He is so diffident that he won t speak
to you about it himself."
"Then we must deal tenderly with
his feelings," said the hearty old
Christopher. "I'll write my reply on a
a-lin of naiier and pin it to your back.
"Paua's answer is tin the back of my
dress," said Miss Jane, as she entered
the drawing-room. Turning around
the delighted suitor read these words:
"With the author's compliments.
Plenty of HI; tianae.
For an old settled state Arkansas
has more game than any other. On
vi VrnniMs river, where the cane-
brakes are tall and dense, the country
eems alive with deer and bear. They
have a neculiar way of hunting in
They keep dops and
horses specially trained for it. The
dogs, perhaps "twenty or thirty, are
put in the brake, and the horses are
trained to follow the dogs, and that is
w hat they w ill do at all hazard. As
soon as the dogs take a trail and liegin
to bay the horses strike out pell mell
through woods, and brake, and swamp,
jumping everything in their course,
and plunging in a way that would ter
rify an English for hunter. The rider
has nothing to do, and that is some
times more than enough, but to hold his
seat. He must keep close to the dogs,
for when the War Ls brought to his
hind legs there is danger of losing three
or four of the valuable animals before
the beast is killed.
DEATH
lie Wu 1
OF A FAMOUS GANDER.
Uccoy owl Noted for the Sue-
rn of 11 1. Slethoua.
The sad news of the death of old
"Mingo" has come to the gunners alonp
the line of the Old Colony road, and if
he was only a gander he had a host of
friends, says the Boston C.lobe. lie has
been at Widgeon point at the lake now
for more than thirty years and was one
of the wisest and most deceptive birds
that ever decoyed the northern wan
derer from his journey to the guns of
the sportsmen.
Old Mingo gained his name many
years ago from the remark of one of
the gunners who was shooting over
hiin. It was attout the time of the
bloody revolution in San Domiupo. The
old chap was struck by a stray shot,
and the gunner picked him up and took
him into the pen with all the solicitu.b
of a true sportsman. There was blood
on the gunner's hands and teara in his
eyes, and from that day the old chap
was cailed Mingo, named after the
island on which so much biood was le
ing spilt.
When the other decoys were unable
to entice the northern strangers from
their course, old Mingo was tried, and
he seldom if ever failed of attracting
their attention and gaining their giod
will, for the time being at least.
Whether he had a peculiar tone to his
voice or whether he was a professional
"masher" will never be known, but his
record was second to none along the
shores of that sportsmen's paradise, and
the gunners had all the game they
wanted if Mingo could catch the atten
tion of the geese.
Alter 111s long ana Taitlilul service
old Mingo seemed to know just how to
work and when to put 111 his very best
efforts. His ideas of enticing the geese
seemed based on principles which were
on a pood foundation. II seldom
failed, and the old fellow- has made
money for his owners and lots of sort.
for the best gunners in the county. If
there was a tenderfoot in the shooting
camp he was cautioned to look out and
not hit Mingo, but he at last fell a vic
tim to the gun of an amateur who was
somewhat excited.
Mingo was owned by Thomas Arnold.
of Xorth Abington, and Mr. Arnold
says that if a man should have offered
him two hundred dollars for the bird it
would have Wen no temptation to him.
Mingo was just what he wanted, and
the most knowing bird in the county.
The gunners gave Mingo a -Christian
burial, and he now rests in a prave dug
for him near his happy hunting ground.
DOGS
IN
CLOTHES.
In Parla the
(teat Iotca
Actually
tarry
I'mbrellaa.
Xo matter what the dress may Ik, the
indispensable companion of the woman
who walks is her little dop. Short-
haired terrier or long-haired toy, it i
of no moment, provided that it be very
tiny.
At the moment it is, perhaps, the ter
rier which is the most jmpular. as b
furnishes a further excuse lor the ex
hibition of fur 111 that his smooth coat
does not appear to his kind hearted mis
tress a sufficient protection from the
cold of this season of the year.
So the little dog has his tailor as well
as his owner, and Ledouble, of the
Palais Roval, may Ik called the Worth
of the kennel. With garments of vel
vet, trimmed with fur. orof cloth strap-
stitched and embroidered, the clothing
of the little creature harmonizes with
that of his possessor.
Some ladies provide mackintoshes for
their pets for rainy days, aud have them
uade with a full hiaxl, w hich covers the
ears. Others there are who choose tar
tan, having points turned back at the
shoulders and fastened with a strap
around the body. For those lclicvcd to
be particularly chilly, the coats are
provided with collars of quite Medici :
style, and are lined throughout with
Astrakhan, nutria, or even lieavcr. as
these short furs are not too cumbrous
for the petted animals.
There are some which actually have
umbrellas of dark blue silk, which they
have been taught to carry quite straight
and steadily between their teeth in the
event of a sudden shower.
They are also provided with handker
chiefs in cases of accidents, a tiny pock
et in which to carry these being placed
on one side of the coat.
These handkerchiefs, adds the Paris
correspondent of the London Daily
Graphic, are found useful when madame
stops a few minutes at the confection-
, , - .
er s, ana can wipe ner pet s nose aim
paws after his share in the delicacies
ahe buys.
CONNECTICUT'S GYPSY PRINCE.
U Makaa Regular Hone Trading Tour
of the Coon try.
For over forty years a familj of gyp
sies have been residents of this state.
At the present time one of them claims
to be the head of the gypsies in this,
country, says a Bridgeport correspon
dent of the Xew Y'ork Sun. He Ls
lrinee William and lives with his fam
ily near East Hartford. The East Hart
ford branch is the main branch of the
family. All the male memliers of the
family are lnrn -horse traders and are
known all over Xew England as upright,
and honest business men. Attached to
their residence at East Hartford are
stables which in winter are always
filled with choice horses. One of the
interesting sights at the barn are the
wagons in which Prince William anil
family go off on their annual trips.
These wagons cost from one thousand
to twenty-five hundred dollars each.
There are branches -of the family in
Xew Haven and aLso in this city, and
when one of these trips alniut the coun
try takes place the other branches join
it. The trips are usually Wgun alniut
the 1st of August and sometimes ex
tend into the winter months, the family
traveling in- the south when cold
weather arrives in Xew England. The
family lately returned from a trip
which was begun last August. On
these trips spare horses are taken along
to trade. This means a cavalcade of a
dozen gorgeous wagons and aliout one
hundred horses. The entire family,
men, women and children, go along.
The part' keep together, traveling by
easy stages, about twenty miles a day
being considered a good journey. W hen
hurried they can make forty miles a
day. The place selected for the night's
resting-place is usually a grove. There
the wagons are drawn up iu a circle,
the fires lighted and supper prepared.
After the evening meal the entire fam
ily gather around lrince William's tent
or wagon and the affairs of the famil'
are discussed. A watchman twtrols the
camp all night to guard the horses.
THE WOP.LD.
Wraith I
Kllm IemlloT. a KnU.n Yt now
I. of Ki-ci-dI C'rcntl .n.
Like the English millionaires, those
of the czar's dominion m.isUy derive
their revenues from land-sl property.
While the P.riton. however, devotes a
large part of his gross income tow aril
improving his xsscssins and t the
amelioration of the lot f his tenants in
one way or another, the Kussian. on
the other hand, extracts every farthing
that he can from his property and
t.pends it upon himself, the result Wing
that agriculture 111 uussia is poinr
from bad to worse, that f. irmerly fer
tile and productive estates have now
ln-come barren and imjiovcrishcd. and
that, while the peasantry are 1:1 a state
f misery laddering on famine, the
nobles themselves have Ik-cii obliged to
mortgage or sell their lands, and are at
the end of their rinancial tether. f
coarse, there are some i i-i
as. for instance, the otis..np..i.j,. the
1 ...,.;. I.. tT-. ami the SchcrcmctlcHs. 1 he
wealth, ol me iiemmons
cording to the New 1 ork 1 rit.tiiie. that
it is Wyotid calculation, and strangely
enough the fortune is of relatively re
cent creation, its founder having In-en
a country blacksmith in the days of IV-
ter the Orcat. It was whil.- traveling
in the I'ral mountains that the latter
broke one of his most valuable English
piatols. A village smith mended it so
quickly and so well that the czar was
delighted and a.-.n..l the man's name.
DcmidolT. I shall rciiien.U r you. said
he as hen ale oiT. The a.r man was
In-ginning to think that Peter had for
gotten him when there came an official
document adorned with the uuin-riai
- .1. - r . .1...1.1 . .f
seal, graining 111111 me ii''""" "
great tract of crown land in the neigh-
liorhood of the village. IK-inidoll went
to work 011 bis new pntpcrty and found
there inexhaustible mines of iron, sil
ver and malachite. Young Elim lVni
idolT he docs not War in Kussia the
Italian title of prince generally pre
fixed to his name by foreigner is at
the present moment the richest man in
the world. Princess UN up 1T. with
her great tiirquic mines, coming next
in rank. Fortunately, Ih.iIi -f them
are more irce-liaii.ie.t aim ir m ' "
than their resjK-ctive immediate pr.sl-
eccssors as head 01 me lainni.
Anat.de DeimdolT and the late Prince
Yousi.up.ilT having Iki-ii alike rvnow ned
for their meanness and avarice, of
which almost incredible storica arc re
lated. THE DREAM OF CHEMISTRY.
Hope In Time to lToduc l-alatar.be Hc'f -ateaka
Out of the 1 l-i..-iiO-
The electrician has one dream and
the social philosopher has another.
Hut the chemist ha-, also a vision of the
alchemist of the .lark ages. This is
how he would solve the problems of
comfort ami happiness which have l-ecii
put to the human race:
"The chemist Iiojh-s for a synthetic
tieef steak, for a chemical loaf, for a
cup of ColTee made, like his sodawatcr
extracts, out of inorganic matter. lie
wiints to see the day when a synthetic
climate shall envelop the earth, when
the rainmaker shall In-a prophet and
man shall hold the string to the unruly
bags of Aeolus.
"In that day the f.d and raiment of
mankind will l" produced in the
crucibles of the chemist. ince more
verdure will clothe the fields now de
faced by human toil, and the shaggy
woods will Miring anew on the de
spoiled slopes of the hills. There will
lie 1111 tilling or harvest, no slaughter
ing of tame U-asts. Out of the original
elements chemistry will compound
chops and cutlets, knead the dough
and brew ale.
"The battle has already been partly
won in the case of medicines and drags.
The wine at the table d'hote never saw
the vineyard. The 'prize fruit flowers'
of the drugstore are inn. went of the
orchard and garden. Synthetic chem
istry is yet young. It has made great
advances in the production of glycerine
and sugar. It has four thousand dev. t-
tces in this country who hope to make
the dream a reality."
INCREASING LENGTH OF LIFE.
Modern Hcroiiien at I--al Are Much
Longer Lived Than Jane Auti-n' Y ere.
Is the human race lncoming longer
lived despite the fret and fever of mod
ern civilization? It is an interesting
question, and it may very probably In
answered some day by science in the
affirmative. The longevity of profes
sional men is now generally considered
to In greater than that of farmers and
mechanics. In other wonls. intellectu
al activity, although in many respects
more exhausting than physical, has in
the main a salutary effect upon the
human frame. It may In the nerves
rather than the muscles upon which we
mainly depend, after all. It is a com
monplace of observation that the big.
hearty men are constantly dropping
out tif the world, while those of far
more fragile organizations, apparently
live 011 to a rie old age.
As to the increasing longevity of the
race generally, there is no little inci
dental testimony oil this head to In
gathered from various sources. ome
f the early hemes and heroines of ro
mance an old ln-fore they reach what
we should call middle life. And at the
In-ginning of our own century Jane
Austen, w host testimony is always un
impeachable, speaks of the healthy and
contented woman of forty as having a
good prosin-ct of twenty years of life
yet. Twenty years.: What woman of
to-day, asks the Provi.leii.-e Journal,
thinks of herself as falling into decrci
itude at sixty? Elsew here in Miss Aus
ten's pages we run across people who
an old with the passage of half a cen
tury of life. Hut now we have (ilad
stones at eighty and over, and think
nothing of it.
ItnnifMl on the Kai-th.
The alarming theories propounded
by scientists make one sit up at first
glance. For example. M. de l-ai.areiit
read a paper In-fore the seicnlilic con
gress at 1 aris the other day in which
he laln.ntl to prove that the mountains
of the earth are tit-creasing in size, and
that they will ultimately vanish alto
gether. The tremendous friction of the
atmosphere is wearing them away.
The A Ins. he said, exemplified the
youth. . ie Pyrenees the mat urity. the
mountains of Provence the di-clining
years and the central plateau of France
the death and dissolution of mountain
ranges. Hut don't worry. Four or five
huudntl thousaud years must slip by
before the bumps on the earth's surface
are razed.
RICHEST MAN IN
THE OUT-TO-DINNER MAN.
One Who
I Not Crllltanr,
Bat MAfce
lllmaelf I'artal.
"Xo." said the slightly cynical bach
elor to a Xew- York Tribune man, "it's
not lievause 1 am tremendously .p'i
lar that I get invitations, and 1 don t
consider it such an honor to Ik- invited
to dine somewhere every night in the
-ck with half a dozen or more invita
tions a week to spare. Why in the.
world do you slipe they invite me?
Well. I am a g.d .leal like the fellow
who is taken on a ship and made to
work hi passage. He j.ays for his voy
age with work. I work my lassag.-at
the dinners. 4 h. yes. I do. There s no
use in Wing vain alw.ut these things.
You see, I'm not married, and there's
always some young woman. r old
woman, for that matter, w ho has to In!
taken care of. Now, a married man is
at a discount at a dinner. f course,
he takes a woman out to dinner, but
some man has to 1 -v prt.vi.led for bis
wife.
"I'm just useful at adinnerand that s
why I get invited. I'm Hot good-b.k-ing
and 1 never said a bright thing iu
inv life, but 1 can talk a streak of stuif
and nonsense that is mi--vary to keep
a dinner going. I'm gl nalim-d and
amiable. I like evcrylo.lv. and so I
get along tt mifortably with my neigli
l.rs. In a mild sort of way. I s.ije
ix.se. I am amusing. And then I am
a g.Mxl laugher. I laugh at all the
g.Hal things that an said, and at many
of them that arMiot so g.al. I g-'t in
my own little jokes when the time
comes, and so we row along through
the dinner. I working my passage and
my hostess smiling appn.val on me.
" lit. 110. it's not a bit damaging to
my vanity. 1 simply know it's so. and
accept it cheerfully. I can't dance f..r
shucks, so I'm of no earthly use at a
dance. If I were a g.d dancer I'd
pn.bably come in for all tltat, too. My
stn.ng point is a dinner, and so I 111
wanted there, and not at a dance. It
doscsii't wound my vanity a bit. I en
joy the dinner. Having a lot of pr. lly
women around the table, and listen ii:
to them, and talking to them is l.rni
more fun than sitting aloite in a club,
with only a lot i.f ghostlike waiters to
amuse y.-u. It's a t-rfoctly lair
bargain. I talk and 1 am svt .-.-', -tvmjH-retl
for my ferriage, and I get ..11
tlie ferry a g. 1 dinner and enjoyable
surroundings. That's all there is to it,
and as for the hiior of the thing and
ail that, there's 110 more honor in iny
In. ilig invited to dine out every even
ing than there would In in going t.ut
to lul.lle for a party at the rvgul: r
price. I talk and get my dinner and
pleasant company. The other man
g.-ls his Jive or ten dollars, or whatever
the price is. and fiddles."
THIS WAS A
SMART CAT.
llow He ( ..in incetl lliu.-clf
That It Una
111 Own Imaice.
The late 1 r. Komanes. in bis "Ani
mal 1 IiTclligen.-e." gives two stories of
cats, which, oil seeing their own reflec
tion in a looking glass, c.mvili.-ed tl. cm
selves that the reflection was an illu
sion. In the case tif a very intelligent
cat of mine, he went. 1 think, a step In
votid this namely, he satisfied himself
that it was in some way his own image.
Even if my deduction is wrong, the first
part of hispr.K-cediiigs was so singula rly
like tlitoe in Dr. Komanes" accounts,
that it seems as though it were a uni
form law of cat tiat ure to act in this
way. and so far it may not In all
gcther uninteresting.
"I put the cat on a table, in front of
a small toilet mirmr. After looking at
his reflection for a short w hile, he went
In-hind the glass; then he return, d to
I is scat ill front, and again watt -lit .1 it
attentively. After a few moments he
rapidly dashed ln-hind it. lie again re
turned to his seat in front of the glass,
and. while retaining his seat and keep
ing his eyes fixed on the image, he
struck aln.ut ln-hind the glass with his
paw in different tlinn-tioiis.
"His next action, was. I fancy, sug
gested by seeing the image apparently
t-trikt with its jaw also. Keeping his
seat and retaining his eye fi .1 .1 the
image, he proceeded toiif 1 may Use
the word 1 jmsture in front of the glass.
lie raised his taws alternately, liekisl
them, touched the glass, moved his
head, etc I have trietl to simply tle
scriln facts, and as far as possible avoid
drawing conclusions."
NEW YORK'S EXCESS OF WOMEN
Curious Fact About the Itltrll-utlou f
the IrniinlDe Surplm.
The census n-veals some curious
facts almut the distribution of Xcw
York's excess of women. Xew York
city has -Jil.tKHI ot them; Itnn.klvn. 17.
ikki; Albany. -VaiHi; Troy. -Voiii; I'ti.-a,
:;.M"i; PtH-lu-stt-r. 4.IHNI; Syracuse. 1.1 ml.
They are all. practically, iu the largei
cities of the state, the one exception Ink
ing P.uffalo. which has 4.IHHI more men
than women.
It would In interesting to know nn.rt
almut these 4.ix0 sti peril nous PutTalo
men. says a writer in Harper's Weekly,
whether they are Poles, Italians, lake
sailors, canal l-oatmcn or mcrcly
livcly young bachelors from the coun
try in the western juirt of the state,
who have gone to HufTalo to seek their
fortunes.
Xew York city's business opportuni
ties, which attract crowds of 111.-11,
seem to attract quite as many women.
Yet the excess of women in Xew York
is comparatively small. The city h is
4.- women tot-very 44 men. while Hrook
Ivn has 2V women to every tlT men and
Troy 11 women to every in men. Why
should it happen that in the suburban
counties nearest Xew York there should
In more men than women?
It would seem that of the population
drawn by the metropolis to this end of
the state the unmarried men would
nearly all live in the cities and the
dwellers in the suburbs would for the
most part In jnt.ple with families. Yet
the suburban countries all show an ex
cess of men l.tUHJ in Westchester. 1,
TOO in Iiichmond and -2.:'.ii iu tjueciis.
An Ingenloua Widower.
A practical man lately ln-came a wid
ower. He was devoted, in his own self
ish way. to his wife, so that her friend
were surprised when they heard that
he had sold all her wedding gifts prin
cipally silver without .It-lay. His in
genious excuse was this: "1 needed a.
potnl watch, as she well knew. Thti
presents wen tif no -Use to me. and L
thought that, if I sold them and ustsl
the proceeds to pet a watch, it would
In' like having it come fn.m her." Cer
tainly a curious w ay of getting amuuti
the facts.
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